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Home 2017 February PostgreSQL: Shell script to store psql result in RECORD ARRAY using WHILE LOOP

PostgreSQL: Shell script to store psql result in RECORD ARRAY using WHILE LOOP

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Now a day, I am developing different Linux shell scripts to monitor the PostgreSQL database server. Later, I will share those shell scripts.

But before that, I want to share few basic things which we can embed in any one of our Shell scripts.

In this post, I am sharing a small shell script to iterate the result of psql SELECT using RECORD ARRAY and WHILE LOOP.
Using that, we can do further processing and validation on each record.

Script to iterate the table result:

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#!/bin/bash
 
DB_NAME=$1
psql -d ${DB_NAME} -At -c "select rno, studname, studclass from tbl_students" \
| while read -a Record ; do
rno=${Record[0]}
studname=${Record[1]}
studclass=${Record[2]}
 
echo "${rno} ${studname} ${studclass}"
done
The result:
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rno | studname
-----+----------+-----------
1 | Anvesh
2 | Neevan
3 | Toby
5 | Roy
4 | Jenny
6 | Kaviy
7 | Martin
8 | Laxmi
9 | Nion
(9 rows)
Feb 28, 2017Anvesh Patel
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Comments: 2
  1. Uyen
    August 24, 2019 at 3:51 pm

    Good job

  2. monica
    November 15, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    if in the option you have passed -t , ideally the output should not contain any headers or row count in the footer, isn’t it? Or have i misunderstood it?

Anvesh Patel
Anvesh Patel

Database Engineer

February 28, 2017 Bash Shell Script, Linux, PostgreSQLAnvesh Patel, Bash shell script, database, database research and development, dbrnd, linux, plpgsql, Postgres Query, postgresql, PostgreSQL Administrator, PostgreSQL Error, PostgreSQL Monitoring, PostgreSQL Performance Tuning, PostgreSQL Programming, PostgreSQL Tips and Tricks, psql, RECORD ARRAY, Shell script, WHILE LOOP
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